Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-19 Thread prad
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:23:26 -0400 John Almberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have PF installed? pftop is a quick way to see what's > happening on the network interface. > thanks john that's a good utility! also, thanks bill for the explanation of the ssh problem. we've found the problem

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-18 Thread John Almberg
1. there are 2 servers involved and they both get affected so as you say, bill "It sure sounds like a network issue, from the description of the symptoms." if it were a 7 issue, then there is no reason for them to be affected simultaneously - but if it is a network issue, they would experience

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to prad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 5. i don't see why there would be a dns problem since we are sshing > from within our local network which the servers are part of. in fact, > it is slow even when you use the ip address directly. Because the ssh server always does DNS lookups on connec

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-18 Thread prad
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:31:49 -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what is really weird is that the machine that hosts that site isn't > > the only one which has slowed down. the other machine which only > > serves email experiences the same thing (slow ssh connection, long > > ping tim

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to prad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:16:09 -0400 > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Prad, once you _are_ logged in, is the server responsive? Or does the > > sluggishness persist? > > > there is no problem once we are in - the cpu is idle 95% and you can >

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-18 Thread prad
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:16:09 -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prad, once you _are_ logged in, is the server responsive? Or does the > sluggishness persist? > there is no problem once we are in - the cpu is idle 95% and you can move around and do stuff without any slowdown at all. ri

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-18 Thread prad
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:36:54 +1200 Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You do realise that this particular symptom usually points to > reverse-lookup errors. I would examine your DNS server logs. > i will look, but we are using the same named.conf and zone files as we did when we had 6.3 wh

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:05:14PM -0700, prad wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:23:32 -0400 > > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is the console responsive when this happens? > > > > > when it bogs it takes ages to even ssh into t

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:05:14PM -0700, prad wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:23:32 -0400 > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is the console responsive when this happens? > > > when it bogs it takes ages to even ssh into the server. You do realise that this particular symptom usually p

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-17 Thread prad
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:23:32 -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the console responsive when this happens? > when it bogs it takes ages to even ssh into the server. > It doesn't sound like a > CPU issue to me -- ICMP messages are low enough CPU overhead that the > system would have t

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-16 Thread Bill Moran
In response to prad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > we have 2 freebsd7 servers using pf with static ip addresses through > our cable company (shaw cable) connecting our internal network to the > outside. the servers do websites, email and nameserve (bind94) > > sometimes one or both become sluggish lettin

internet slowdown

2008-06-16 Thread prad
we have 2 freebsd7 servers using pf with static ip addresses through our cable company (shaw cable) connecting our internal network to the outside. the servers do websites, email and nameserve (bind94) sometimes one or both become sluggish letting us connect to websites. the ping times become 10+